LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday she saw no equivalence between fascists and their opponents after US President Donald Trump said protestors against a far-right rally were partially responsible for violence. “I see no equivalence between those who propound fascist views and those who oppose them. I think it is important…

TOKYO – Japanese jets conducted air maneuvers with U.S. bombers southwest of the Korean peninsula on Wednesday as North Korea considered whether to fire missiles towards the U.S.-administered territory of Guam. Reclusive North Korea has made no secret of its plans to develop a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and of reaching the…

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Mourners will gather in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Wednesday to honor the woman who was killed when a car rammed into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally that descended into violence last weekend. A memorial service for Heather Heyer is scheduled Wednesday morning at a downtown Charlottesville theater. Attendees were…

The city of Baltimore took down a number of Confederate statues in the early hours of Wednesday morning. A seven-member commission — chosen by the city’s mayor — proposed to remove both the Roger B. Taney Monument and a dual monument to Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson earlier this year, according to…

CANBERRA, Australia — Scientists have potentially narrowed the search area for the missing Malaysian airliner to three specific locations in the southern Indian Ocean, through new satellite and drift analysis of the 2014 crash released Wednesday. But the Australian Transport Safety Bureau cautioned that the drift analysis by Australian science agency CSIRO is based on…

Capt. Brett DeVries said he had to think fast when a “donut of gas” enveloped his gun and aircraft over Michigan’s Grayling Air Gunnery Range — forcing him to make a dramatic belly-landing. The 30 mm gun of his A-10 jet misfired just as the entire canopy of the aircraft blew off last month, the Air…

WESTERLY, R.I. — A tree removal company’s attempt to uproot a mysterious object with steel legs that is lodged on a Rhode Island beach has been postponed. WPRI-TV reports that East Beach Association President Peter Brockmann says the Tuesday evening extrication by Rocky’s Tree Service has been canceled due to deteriorating conditions on the beach….

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people died again late Tuesday along with many of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s summer demands as an already bruising legislative session was derailed by Republican backbiting that could preview an even nastier 2018 primary season. It is the second time that North Carolina-style bathroom restrictions have…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Sen. Luther Strange and former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore are headed to a Republican primary runoff to fill the U.S. Senate seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The two men, who represent different factions within the Alabama Republican Party, will face off in a Sept. 26 runoff after neither…

The North Korean regime has continued to position itself as one of the world’s worst persecutors of the religious, torturing and killing people who practice their faith, according to a State Department report released Tuesday. The 2016 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom determined that the government led by dictator Kim Jong Un continues to delineate brutal…